27 Apr
2004
27 Apr
'04
1:35 p.m.
On Tue, 27 Apr 2004 12:22:43 -0600
ben franchuk <bfranchuk(a)jetnet.ab.ca> wrote:
John Allain wrote:
A lot of 'free' 8086 C compilers are now out for the
with the demise of DOS. http://www.thefreecountry.com/compilers/cpp.shtml
Agreed, but sometimes it's fun to dredge around in the past. We do that here,
don't we? I was messing around writing code with my copy of Aztec C for DOS last
fall for awhile. I have the full set with disks and manuals, and it wasn't hard to
get it going on an old laptop.
And it's nice to have archaic tools that you can write code to run on really old
equipment, i.e. DOS 1.0 machines.
Aztec C on
the Apple ][ is a sorry, lazy, flea-ridden dog.
Any C implementation for that era (1979) of micros is a
pretty good find, IMHO.
Although I'd reccomend finding a C for the PC class, post
8086, (1985+) if what you want to learn is software.